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Driver
·noun The driving wheel of a locomotive. II. Driver ·noun A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to ...

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driver
1) An overseer of slaves. 2) He or that which drives; a coachman, a carman.--Worcester. The English...

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driver
A large sail formerly used with the wind aft or quartering. It was a square sail cut like a studding...

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Boom
·vi To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. II. Boom ·noun A pole with a conspicuous top, se...

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boom
A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particula...

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Screw-driver
·noun A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters...

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Stake-driver
·noun The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); — so called because one of its notes res...

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devil driver
A parson. See snub devil. ...

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quill driver
A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer. ...

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river driver
A term used by lumbermen in Maine, for a man whose business it is to conduct logs down rilnuing stre...

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stage driver
A stage-coachman. ...

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pile-driver
A machine adapted for driving piles. Also, applied to a ship given to pitch heavily in a sea-way. ...

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quill-driver
Captain's clerk, purser's secretary, et hoc genus omne. ...

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Gib boom
·- ·see Jib boom. ...

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Torpedo boom
·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...

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boom along
To move rapidly. A sea term. A ship is said to boom along when under full sail. You're right in the...

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bentinck-boom
That which stretches the foot of the fore-sail in many small square-rigged merchantmen; particularly...

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boom-boats
Those stowed on the booms. ...

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boom-cover
The tarpaulin, or painted, cover over the spars. ...

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boom-irons
Are metal rings fitted on the yard-arms, through which the studding-sail booms traverse; there is on...

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boom-jigger
A tackle used in large ships, for rigging out or running in the top-mast studding-sail booms. ...

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boom-mainsail
See main-sail. ...

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jib-boom
A continuation of the bowsprit forward, being a spar run out from the extremity in a similar manner ...

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main-boom
The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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swinging-boom
The spar which stretches the foot of a lower studding-sail; in large ships they have goose-necks in ...

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boom-brace pendant
A rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, and leading down on deck; it is used to co...

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flying jib-boom
A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...

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guest-warp boom
A swinging spar (lower studding-boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by. ...

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square-sail boom
A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...

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studding-sail boom
A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...

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top your boom
See boom. ...

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top a boom, to
To raise up one end of it by hoisting on the lift, as the spanker-boom is lifted before setting the ...

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